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Software Update – 4.4.35

It’s been 5 months since our last update, but we think this one was worth waiting for.

Many thanks to our users for the requests they have sent in to us. We’ve successfully implemented the Open Recent feature, as well as a way to split your screen to support the Windows split-screen function. And we’ve added locking to shapes, images, and text boxes.

The Word Vault tool can now be populated on a per-slide basis, and we’ve taken care of a lot of pesky bugs too.

New Feature – Added “Open Recent” functionality to show the last ten used files

New Feature – Added a “half screen” button so that OKTOPUS only takes up 50% of the screen width

New Feature – Shapes, annotations, and text boxes will now support locking

General – Improved support for IWB files

General – Improved touch detection for tool selection

General – Sidebar buttons are now wider

General – Pressing and holding to open the QTP on a touchscreen while the pen is active will no longer draw a dot

General – Changed the location of the OKTOPUS temp data store to support users in a school or corporate network. This will address the issue where saved files would not re-open when the AppData folder was on a network location

General – The Word Vault will now load data on a “per slide” basis

General – The image settings will now appear along the bottom of the screen

General – Images added from the image gallery will now appear on the right hand side of the screen instead of behind the sidebar

General – Added translations to the Select Map tool

General – The Protractor is now completely semi-transparent

General – It is now possible to delete a single slide by just tapping the delete icon when in slide management

General – After drawing a shape, tap anywhere on the screen to enter Cursor mode

General – Improved the Selection tool so that it no longer “picks up” objects during the selection process

General – Clipboard improvements (added support for images)

General – Added drag-and-drop support for images directly from within popular search engines

General – Improved the response time for tools to become selected

General – Background images will now stay stretched after navigating slides or saving/reopening

General – Updated the Periodic Table

Bug Fix – Exporting to PDF will now re-capture the current slide if in Glass Mode

Bug Fix – Close delay for the sidebar will now occur each time a tool is selected

Bug Fix – Line graph will now populate under all conditions in the Graph tool

Bug Fix – Lines will draw as expected if the cursor is released over the line menu

Bug Fix – Double tapping a text box to edit text will no longer highlight the last word

Bug Fix – After selecting a shape, the menu will disappear after clicking or tapping another part of the screen

Bug Fix – After clicking a hyperlinked object and returning to OKTOPUS, the image will no longer “stick” to the mouse cursor

Bug Fix – Using handwriting recognition for sums will no longer append a zero onto the end of single digit sums

Bug Fix – Drawing a text box over an image will no longer move the image